In the wake of global attention on climate change following COP28, local initiatives are taking the lead in addressing environmental challenges. Reduction of Waste (ROW), a non-profit youth-led organization committed to promoting climate justice, recently organized a significant awareness and training event on plastic pollution in the King Gray Community, the Roberts International Airport Highway.
A wave of red corrugated roofs welcomes visitors to the city of Ibadan in southwest Nigeria. Inside the 200-year-old city’s centre, incessant traffic winds through narrow, unpaved roads and past crowded open-air markets.
New moment and a fresh start for everybody at all levels as we enter the New Year. 2023 was a memorable and defining year for every Liberian. Resolutions for the passing year may have varied but on the communality of issues, it was no doubt a great year of relief.
In the last hour, there are reports of trucks load of military and OSD personnel raiding the residence of Sheik Alhaji Mohamed “Omodu” Kamara, alias Jagaban in Freetown.
Like Presidents George Manneh Weah and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President Elect Joseph Nyumah Boakai has, with a spirit of intensity, promised his administration's commitment to reconciling Liberians in a robust manner.
Former Solicitor-General Sayma Syrenius Cephus wants international investigative bodies including the international criminal court to examine US financial and economic sanctions imposed on more than half dozen of the outgoing George Weah administration.
For many Africans, the pursuit of Washington's political corridors is deemed a political dividend, regardless of whether such endeavors benefit their people. Sirleaf basked in the adoration of the West and Washington, yet poverty and exposed infrastructure loomed large in Liberia.
